Vadeboncoeur & Göncü ()

Question 1

Imaginative play

Answer 1

Emerges in part, as individuals attempt to make sense of their lived experiences, interpret actions and events, and to predict and create their futures. It builds from an imaginary situation that includes roles with rules for physical and psychological action. It involves a sense of ‘becoming’ someone or something through the simultaneous creation of a world within which that role is possible

Question 2

The concept of social situation of development

Answer 2

Describes the relation between an individual and her historical, social, and cultural environment given her development history. Include cultural perspectives on and expectations of childhood and adulthood that individuals grow into, e.g. preschool settings

Question 3

Trajectory

Answer 3

May describe a group in general, but many variations exist within social institutions and the ways in which individuals participate in them

Question 4

Scripts

Answer 4

Ordered sequences of actions toward a goal

Question 5

Narratives

Answer 5

The recounting of events and experiences

Question 6

Word meaning

Answer 6

The beginning of the development of everyday concepts

Question 7

Everyday concepts

Answer 7

Emerge through participation in everyday social practices, are deeply felt and concrete, and are often suitable for day-to-day existence from childhood through adulthood

Question 8

Academic concepts

Answer 8

Emerge through instruction and engagement with verbal and written definitions
Not readily observable, begin as abstractions, become grounded in concrete experience over time

Question 9

Self-consciousness

Answer 9

Emerges as the individual seeks to enact the role of a fictitious ‘I’. Requires development of psychological distance as a participant moves away from herself and into a role by considering how the character might think, feel, and act